Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf

It’ the great Virginia Woolf’s birthday.  The English writer is the author of such novels as The Voyage Out and Between the Acts, however her grassroots approach to informing and inspiring feminism led to Woolf’s best-known nonfiction work A Room of One’s Own. She has left a legacy that inspired works such as Who’s Afraid…

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The Magic of The Secret Garden On Easter With Roasted Potatoes & Eggs

This Easter, I was thinking about what I could offer my lovely readers. Like many holidays, Easter itself is a time of delight for children, however in my opinion, Easter is more so for little ones because rather than holiday parties and gifts for young and old, we focus on the youth with Easter baskets…

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Bridget Jones’s Diary Omelet & Orange Marmalade On Toast

I realize that many of the movies I select to do posts on are originally books. I suppose a bestselling book makes a good story on film and is a testament to my selective film taste as well as literary eye. So this time around I’m starting the year off writing about a book that befittingly starts…

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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! An Ode from Children & Adults Alike

When I was in high school we had a physics project to build a real boat out of butcher paper and wood that would actually float in water. We were given extra credit for coming up with a theme and dressing up the boat as well as ourselves. Somehow our amateur physics skills resulted in…

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Lucy Maude Montgomery Gets Google Doodle for Her Birthday

This morning I woke up and opened my internet browser expecting a rush of Cyber Monday propaganda, however to my pleasant surprise, the first thing I saw was today’s Google Doodle, which was in honor of Anne of Green Gables author, Lucy Maude Montgomery (more internationally known as L.M. Montgomery). Who is L.M. Montgomery? She…

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